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On March 3, 1999 it was announced over CBS News that new Minnesota Governor (and former "pro" wrestler) Jesse Ventura had requested that every fourth year be a LEGISLATION-FREE year in Minnesota (save for emergency measures).

Among the inalienable (you cannot put a lien or claim upon them) rights stated by Thomas Jefferson in the Preamble to the Constitution for the united States of America are LIFE, LIBERTY, and PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. The latter is really a reference to PROPERTY (both tangible, and intangible property, such as one's conscience).

The MOTIVE for the Preamble was good, but the philosophy underlying it was flawed, leaving a gaping hole, through which tyrants could proceed to abrogate your "inalienable" rights, starting with seizure of your property, proceeding to incarceration of your person, and (eventually) culminating in the taking of your life.

Proceeding in the Preamble, Jefferson intoned:

Here is the rub: When Man is put in charge of altering or abolishing existing governments, he inevitably errs in the direction of his personal vices. Under YHVH-God's rule, Law is not some flexible toy, to be molded to our whims, or amended for the protection of some, and subservience of others. Malachi 3:6 tells us that YHVH-God does not change, and since His Law is indistinguishable from His personality, IT cannot change, either.

An old German proverb tells us that "The more the laws, the less the justice." Lao Tzu, ancient Chinese author of The Art of War (recommended reading), says, "The more laws enacted and taxes assessed, the greater the number of law breakers and tax evaders." This is axiomatic. It is the reason there are more people per capita behind bars, or under terms of imprisonment (parole & probation) in America than any other place on Earth. You can hardly turn around and breathe without endangering some helpless species of plant or animal you've never heard of, or speak something deemed offensive by some "member of society." Heaven help you if your car is found lacking a catalytic converter, ostensibly to help "clean the air" but in reality, something lessening the efficiency of your engine, hence counterproductive. If you fail to fasten your seat belt, you may be subject to a fine, even if the risk in an accident is your own.

In fact, our society is obsessed with peace and safety when neither was guaranteed to us by our Creator. Why, He even sent His Apostles out armed (Luke 22:35-37) knowing that the Gospel they were to preach, one which emphasized individual liberty, would be despised by many. I wonder if He instructed them to register their "Saturday Night Special" swords with the Roman authorities...

Congress, that supposedly august body which "We, The People" empowered back in 1787 (Hey, I didn't give them MY consent!) saw fit, by judiciary acts in 1966, to combine admiralty-maritime actions with civil (Common Law) actions. Prior to this, a "joinder" was required before a natural person could sacrifice personal jurisdiction to admiralty-maritime (the "Law of the High Seas"). Also the ASuits in Admiralty Act of 1966" produced the Supplemental Rules of Civil Procedure for Admiralty Maritime actions.

What does all this mean? Consider: All Federal (and quasi-Federal) agencies, such as the IRS, DEA, BATF, and others, base their actions (administrative procedures) on these rules in order to "compel" you into FORFEITURE ("in rem") proceedings.

As I understand it, some East Coast cities are now using these "laws" and procedures to STEAL the property of people arrested for drunk driving, drug use, etc. "They deserve it," you say? I don't condone drinking & driving, or drug use, but the point is, if the property of such people may be seized, who is to say the boundaries of Admiralty won't be pushed further inland to arrest YOU for politically incorrect speech, or associations, and seize YOUR property, if the "powers that be" so decree it?

How about your guns? Do you think they're safe? In Australia and England, two supposedly civilized countries, you can be arrested for possessing guns. You didn't know that? Wake up, my friend. LAWS are eating away not only at your property rights (in the case of guns, your right to personal and family defense, as well), but at your very worldview.

Even as we speak, Marxist and Zionist organizations are subtly targeting you for your very associations! In his scholarly study on anti-racist "Watchdog" groups, The Watchdogs, Laird Wilcox warns us:

Where does this lead? To more and more useless laws, such as those involving alleged "hate crimes" Tell me now, are all other violations of statute LOVE crimes? Is crime not crime? What can't all crimes be addressed on a common basis? And does the political climate generated by the real hate mongers (who came up with the concept) mask or hide other crimes by diverting our attention or our emotions?

While the dragging-death trial was going on in Jasper, Texas recently, I couldn't help but wonder why the national media was spending so much time covering this trial while thousands of young white girls were being raped, tortured and unceremoniously murdered by Negroes and other non-white minorities in cities and towns around the country. Where was Ted Koppel when these unspeakable acts were being discovered and prosecuted? Unfortunately, some culprits were not even apprehended.

One odd thing about this trend toward both the multiplicity of laws, and resultant lawlessness, is the political dialectic produced. Many, especially those in conservative and right-wing groups, are calling for a swift return to stern Old Testament (Mosaic) Law. To some, it isn't enough that murderers are sentenced to life in prison at taxpayer expense, or even that a few are executed by lethal injection or hanging. No, they want a return to STONING, including that for "disobedient youth."

Now, anyone who knows me personally knows I am a staunch defender of the death penalty (in applicable capital cases where due process has been followed, and the accused has had full freedom to call evidence and witness which might acquit him or her). However, I have a problem with the Pharisee crowd who look at a good stoning like the Romans viewed lions and Christians B as a spectacle. There is a sharp satiric scene in the Monty Python film, Life of Brian, where the title character and his mother leave the "Sermon on the Mount" to attend a stoning. The mother cannot attend under Judean rules, so she must put on a man's garb, a fake beard, and speak in a gruff voice. The accused was found guilty of pronouncing the name of God, Jehovah, which the Jews of the time considered blasphemy. In the ensuing chaos, the priest in charge of the stoning inadvertently utters "Jehovah," and the cross dressers proceed to stone him, instead.

Many in the so-called "Christian-Identity" movement have fallen prey to the Jewish claptrap of legal minutiae, and are being fomented into a frenzy to keep the letter of their law, without considering mercy. To question this in any way is to draw down their ire as someone who is lawless! As the Apostle Paul intoned in 1 Timothy 1:5-11, the Law is good, if used in a lawful way, in preservation of charity. Punitive measures, of themselves, do nothing to further justice. The argument made is that they induce fear in the lawless, but if this were the case, our prisons would be empty.

Nevertheless, if criminals must be put to death, what's wrong with a simple bullet in the back of the head? Or hanging? Or lethal injection? The argument made is that there is some sort of healing for the bereaved to be involved in the execution when stones are used. Well, let them pull the handle on the scaffold, or fire the shot, or push the button releasing the chemical!

However, I digress. The multiplicity of laws perpetrated upon Americans are the result of special interest lobbying and pandering. As the saying goes, "Let George do it." If we are personally affected, then our human nature kicks in and tells us the matter at hand must be covered by some sort of law or ordinance, to keep the act from happening again. The ironic thing about Man's laws is that they are preventive in nature, they seek to compel performance, whereas the Law of YHVH-God is always reactive, only applying after someone's LIFE, LIBERTY or PROPERTY has been violated. There is a recovery and restitution process which would do away with the insane penal system we have, which utilizes slave labor (UNICOR) for the financial benefit of a few. Prison is an atrocity. Bible Law never advocates imprisonment. The closest one comes to it is house arrest in a "city of refuge," where the convicted may work and live normally without the threat from bereaved loved ones in the instance of manslaughter (accidental death).

Perhaps Jesse Ventura's suggestion is a step in the right direction. Perhaps we may one day hold a yearly moratorium on legislation, and send Congress home for most the year, suspending their salaries. Power would once again return to its base at home, and Congress would be constrained to the limited powers granted them in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution for the united States, which they swore to uphold.

Let us pray for a godly conclusion of the matter.

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